Electromagnetic
adjective
Related to the magnetic and electric fields.
An electromagnetic wave, like light or radio waves, carries energy.
Often appears as...
- electromagnetic field
- electromagnetic radiation
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Technical
adjective
Operated by interaction between electricity and magnetism.
He is designing an electromagnetic engine.
Often appears as...
- electromagnetic spectrum
- electromagnetic pulse
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Technical
adjective
Related to the magnetic and electric fields.
An electromagnetic wave, like light or radio waves, carries energy.
Often appears as...
- electromagnetic field
- electromagnetic radiation
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Technical
adjective
Operated by interaction between electricity and magnetism.
He is designing an electromagnetic engine.
Often appears as...
- electromagnetic spectrum
- electromagnetic pulse
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Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Science Context
Often used in scientific discussions about physics and technology.
The seminar covered the basics of electromagnetic theory.
Pro Tip 2/3Energy Transmission
Refers to how energy travels through space or materials.
Electromagnetic fields are key to transmitting signals in wireless devices.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Electromagnetic phenomena may be invisible, like X-rays or microwaves.
Electromagnetic waves encompass both visible and invisible light.
Pro Tip 1/3Science Context
Often used in scientific discussions about physics and technology.
The seminar covered the basics of electromagnetic theory.
Pro Tip 2/3Energy Transmission
Refers to how energy travels through space or materials.
Electromagnetic fields are key to transmitting signals in wireless devices.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Electromagnetic phenomena may be invisible, like X-rays or microwaves.
Electromagnetic waves encompass both visible and invisible light.
Pro Tip 1/3Science Context
Often used in scientific discussions about physics and technology.
The seminar covered the basics of electromagnetic theory.
Pro Tip 2/3Energy Transmission
Refers to how energy travels through space or materials.
Electromagnetic fields are key to transmitting signals in wireless devices.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Electromagnetic phenomena may be invisible, like X-rays or microwaves.
Electromagnetic waves encompass both visible and invisible light.
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String theory - Brian...
equation if you will so Coolidge's said to himself Einstein has been able to describe gravity in terms of warps and curves in space in fact space and time to be more precise maybe I can play the same game with the other known force which was at that time known as the electromagnetic force we know of others today but at that time that was the only other one
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How do we know what...
which can shine in all the colors of the rainbow. To understand how that works, it helps to remember some things about light. Light is basically a tiny electromagnetic wave traveling through space. The top of a wave is called its crest and the distance between two crests is called the wavelength.
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Is it possible to create...
The universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there's one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. That's not the mention a barrage of particles and electromagnetic radiation passing every which way from stars, galaxies, and into black holes.
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How quantum mechanics...
but there is no fundamental difference between visible light and other electromagnetic radiation. It's the same energy, but at a higher or lower level. In fact, it's a bit presumptuous to define the term visible light by our own limitations. After all, infrared light is visible to snakes,
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Is radiation dangerous?...
infrared, and visible light. At the higher end are ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma rays. Modern society is shaped by sending and detecting electromagnetic radiation. We might download an email to our phone via radio waves to open an image of an X-ray print,
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Questions No One Knows...
or glorious works of art that fill the night sky. At the very least, you'd think they'd be revealing their presence, deliberately or otherwise, through electromagnetic signals of one kind or another. And yet we see no convincing evidence of any of it.
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Making sense of string...
and describe electromagnetic force in terms of warps and curves. That raised a warps and curves in what? Einstein had already used up space and time, warps and curves, to describe gravity. There didn't seem to be anything else to warp or curve.
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How electromagnetic...
in so many ways and here you can see the electromagnetic spectrum and so you can see things that you're familiar with radio waves microwaves ultraviolet infrared visible light these are all things that make up the electromagnetic
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Reverse Engineering a...
to expand our thinking to perhaps more advanced concepts these concepts are so advanced that they still haven't made it from the drawing board to the launch pad one is electromagnetic propulsion this
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Fire Ants Destroy...
has proved impossible to repel because of concerns about possible risks from electromagnetic forces homes are now rarely built under high-voltage power lines
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String theory - Brian...
equation if you will so Coolidge's said to himself Einstein has been able to describe gravity in terms of warps and curves in space in fact space and time to be more precise maybe I can play the same game with the other known force which was at that time known as the electromagnetic force we know of others today but at that time that was the only other one
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How do we know what...
which can shine in all the colors of the rainbow. To understand how that works, it helps to remember some things about light. Light is basically a tiny electromagnetic wave traveling through space. The top of a wave is called its crest and the distance between two crests is called the wavelength.
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Is it possible to create...
The universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there's one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. That's not the mention a barrage of particles and electromagnetic radiation passing every which way from stars, galaxies, and into black holes.
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How quantum mechanics...
but there is no fundamental difference between visible light and other electromagnetic radiation. It's the same energy, but at a higher or lower level. In fact, it's a bit presumptuous to define the term visible light by our own limitations. After all, infrared light is visible to snakes,
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Is radiation dangerous?...
infrared, and visible light. At the higher end are ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma rays. Modern society is shaped by sending and detecting electromagnetic radiation. We might download an email to our phone via radio waves to open an image of an X-ray print,
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Questions No One Knows...
or glorious works of art that fill the night sky. At the very least, you'd think they'd be revealing their presence, deliberately or otherwise, through electromagnetic signals of one kind or another. And yet we see no convincing evidence of any of it.
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Making sense of string...
and describe electromagnetic force in terms of warps and curves. That raised a warps and curves in what? Einstein had already used up space and time, warps and curves, to describe gravity. There didn't seem to be anything else to warp or curve.
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How electromagnetic...
in so many ways and here you can see the electromagnetic spectrum and so you can see things that you're familiar with radio waves microwaves ultraviolet infrared visible light these are all things that make up the electromagnetic
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Reverse Engineering a...
to expand our thinking to perhaps more advanced concepts these concepts are so advanced that they still haven't made it from the drawing board to the launch pad one is electromagnetic propulsion this
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Fire Ants Destroy...
has proved impossible to repel because of concerns about possible risks from electromagnetic forces homes are now rarely built under high-voltage power lines
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Jason Silva
American Director
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
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Steven Weinberg
American Scientist
My work during the 1970s has been mainly concerned with the implications of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, with the development of the related theory of strong interactions known as quantum chromodynamics, and with steps toward the unification of all interactions.
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Craig Venter
American Scientist
Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question.
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Mark Waid
American Writer
I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.
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Max von Laue
German Scientist
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.
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Jack Steinberger
American Physicist
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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John Trudell
American Author
What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are little units of electrical energy, and we vibrate and project electromagnetic thought.
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Kip Thorne
American Physicist
When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.
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Francois Englert
Belgian Physicist
Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.
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Jason Silva
American Director
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.
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Steven Weinberg
American Scientist
My work during the 1970s has been mainly concerned with the implications of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, with the development of the related theory of strong interactions known as quantum chromodynamics, and with steps toward the unification of all interactions.
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Craig Venter
American Scientist
Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question.
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Mark Waid
American Writer
I do believe that any sort of electromagnetic energy that can be measured beyond the moment of death is, by the definition of energy, eternal. But I cop to the fact that calling it a 'soul' and presuming it sustains our consciousness in any form is, to put it kindly, a leap.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.
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Max von Laue
German Scientist
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.
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Jack Steinberger
American Physicist
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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John Trudell
American Author
What I view life like is about energy. Everything is about energy - everything. We physically are little units of electrical energy, and we vibrate and project electromagnetic thought.
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Kip Thorne
American Physicist
When Galileo first trained his optic telescope on the heavens and opened up modern optical astronomy, that was the first of the electromagnetic windows out of the universe: light.
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Francois Englert
Belgian Physicist
Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.
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